BGS mineralogy and petrology collection record

Sample number S40565; COLLNOXN850;
Sample Donor Wright,J.E.
Rock name 'Original entry: Quartz-Diorite'
Stratigraphy Not entered
Comments Spheniferous biotite microdiorite from one of numerous sheets cutting psammite and cut by thin aplite veins
Locality details Stream section, 1360 yds E 34 deg S of summit of Geal Charn
50k map sheet Loch Eil (62)

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Map reference NN 1661 9340
Year collected Not entered 
Bore name Not applicable
Confidentiality No restrictions

Petrological thin sections

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Transition from XPL to PPL light


S40565

Cross Polarized, S40565

Plane Polarized, S40565

Plane Polarized, S40565